Qualifying
Race.
After the relatively pedestrian race at Lienz, the REECCS returned to it's usual carnage filled best at the narrow Kicevo circuit in Macedonia. A few of the Trabants as well as Garfunkel's Moskvich missed the grid due to lack of grid spots. Even though most of the Trabants were gone before the race had begun, there were still plenty of rolls in this race, thanks to a few tyres placed on the inside of some corners. Rafal Lepel was the first to find out what hitting a tyre on the inside of a corner would do... as did much of the mid pack, with around four cars rolling simultaneously and causing a traffic jam. Other than the two Trabants that made the grid, the Polski Fiats were the most susceptible to ending up on their side. Even the relatively stable Ladas rolled a few times.
Some of the wilder incidents included some huge air time for Dargaan Zorzanov, Dinah Lance's Skoda catching on fire and Ferdinando Blaszikowski's hugely epic fail, that saw him go from having a 20 second lead to being a minute down in 30th! The key to this race was just to stay out of trouble, which was what most of the top 10 did. Guillaume Gauthier was one such driver, holding a 20 second gap to the rest of the field by not taking any risks while passing lapped traffic. His race was almost without incident... just before crossing the finish line, Rhys Davies' Lada emerged from the trees and slammed into the Marmite Lada, which ended up taking the win on only 3 wheels, before grinding to a halt about 50 meters up the road. Brucie Kibbutz had a great race to finish 2nd from a poor 26th grid slot, while Nikolai Nurmovitch completed a Lada sweep of the podium.
Awards:
Master of Disaster (5 points): Rhys Davies
Look Ma, No Wheels! (2 points for a wheel, 10 for all four): Guillaume Gauthier, Rhys Davies, Laurent Seron
Lolwut? (3 points): Rhys Davies, Dargaan Zorzanov, Ferdinando Blaszikowski
The Bradbury Award (7 points): Guillaume Gauthier
The Daniel Melrose Award (-2 points): Ferdinando Blaszikowski
The "That's not gone well" award (-1 point): Ferdinando Blaszikowski
Fire in the hole (2 points): Dinah Lance
Where's my GPS? (-2 points): Ferdinando Blaszikowski
Brand loyalty (3 points): Guillaume Gauthier, Helena Bertinelli, Kodosky Vulkatin, Jacek Piscopo, Jorma Kalervo, Simon Redman, Jean Girard
Rolling Start (1 point): Rafal Lepal
Rafal Lepel takes out the 'Rolling Start' award with the first roll of the day
Synchronised rolling
Njord Munk spins over a tyre
Carnage is too weak of a word to describe what's happening here...
Zorzanov gets some serious hang time
...and what is Blaszikowski doing?
Gauthier crosses the line to take the victory... after slamming into Rhys Davies' Lada.
Lot of big accidents in that one.
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